Melissa Harris-Perry brags about her sixth sense for knowing when stuff is racist

The Daily Caller ^ | January 31, 2014 | Robby Soave

[2ndDivisionVet]

At a recent forum at the University of Michigan, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry explained to her audience that white people will never understand why things are racist, because they lack an innate “racial trigger,” that instantly tells them when to be outraged.

Harris-Perry, on the other hand, has a very finely-tuned racial trigger.

“I know that this moment is racist because it trips my racial trigger, because it makes me feel nauseous,” she said, according to The Michigan Daily. “I’m not generally angry, but you just made me mad.”

While lamenting that her ‘white allies’ would never be fully able to understand the way black people feel, she nevertheless maintained that a faculty more committed to discussing racial issues would help improve white people’s understanding of racism.

“Part of the answer to how you begin those conversations is you bring more faculty in who are teaching these courses, who are well-resourced, who are not visitors, who are not adjuncts, but who are actual faculty,” she said.

Harris-Perry’s talk was intended to kickstart Black History Month, which begins on Feb. 1. She lectured for three hours about the history of the civil rights struggle and the problems facing black people today. The audience frequently cheered and applauded her remarks....

[DemforBush]

I LOVE that pic!

[tennmountainman]

Every word is racist to black America.

[jdsteel]

“I know that this moment is racist because it trips my racial trigger, because it makes me feel nauseous,”......"While lamenting that her ‘white allies’ would never be fully able to understand the way black people feel"

I guess she really doesn't understand what "irony" or "hypocrite" means.

[TigersEye]

Harris-Perry, on the other hand, has a very finely-tuned racial trigger.

The Romney family noticed that about you right off.

[jiggyboy]

A standard question during any psychiatric exam is along the lines of, “do you have any special abilities that you believe nobody else has?”.

[elcid1970]

You would think that bi-racial people (not her fault - got it!) might be a little careful about stepping into the racial identity minefield.

She’s what we in the Lowcountry call cafe au lait with extra cream. That kind of mixing produces some lovely outcomes, but apparently with some volatile attitude to go with it. Eartha Kitt comes to mind.

Melissa needs to stow the attitude & accept what G-d has given her, with maybe a little recognition for those who adopt across ethnic lines.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

My sixth sense tells me she is an idiot!

[A_Former_Democrat]

Just another Affirmative Action Jackson who can’t function in the real world.

[BwanaNdege]

Just drop her off in Kenya between Kikuyu and Luo, or in Uganda between Acholi and Karamajong, or in Nigeria in the middle of one of the Igbo and Yoruba tribal gunfights.

Let’s see what her “very finely-tuned racial trigger” tells her among these totally black on black conflicts?

For that matter, drop her in South Central LA wearing the wrong “colors”.

[equaviator]

“You are too nice. She’s a stupid racist bwitch, plain and simple.”

Thank you too much!

[Mears]

“Just drop her off in Kenya between Kikuyu and Luo, or in Uganda between Acholi and Karamajong, or in Nigeria in the middle of one of the Igbo and Yoruba tribal gunfights.”

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Or Johannesburg around 2:00 AM.

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[CdMGuy]

Melissa Harris Perry - a racist of the first order. Unfortunately, when I channel surf my cable service stops at the MSNBC station even though I have removed it from the station guide. I came across her a few months ago and couldn’t click fast enough. Plus, she obviously has a lot of White folks blood. She seems to be playing the race card just like our half-black president. Neither seems to want to admit they are of mixed race.

[flaglady47]

“You’re all so outraged at American chattel slavery which lasted 85 years in the United States of America and ended 150 years ago, and which was exclusively implemented and advanced by your own political party, yet you never fail to work to advocate the enslavement of us all by the tyrannical forces of concentrated government power beyond anything the founders could have imagined.”

Bingo. Well and most excellently said.

[TigersEye]

A standard question during any psychiatric exam is along the lines of, “do you have any special abilities that you believe nobody else has?”.

Good grief! If you asked 0blahblah that question his reply would make the SOTU seem like a short offhand comment.

[17th Miss Regt]

I know that this moment is racist because it trips my racial trigger, because it makes me feel nauseous,” she said, according to The Michigan Daily.

So the issue is not people or their actions - it is time itself that is racist or not. Interesting philosophical point. From a moron.

[jmacusa]

Ms. Harris-Perry has never experienced anything remotely resembling racism or bigotry in her whole freakin' life, not once. No one ever told her to sit in the back of the bus, no one ever denied her the right to vote. But doesn't she sure wish she had so she'd have some ''cred''. This woman disgusts me.

[jmacusa]

She’s too stupid to be an idiot.

[Amagi]

Everyone has a threshold of what they consider racist.
M H-P's threshold is so low it wallows in the dirt, and yet this egotistical, blithering moron thinks so highly of herself that she apparently believes she is the arbiter of all that is to be deemed racist for all humanity.